FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that kids who were shut out of schools during the pandemic and who have yet to go back to the classroom are one of the factors in America’s violent crime wave.
He said juveniles are a new factor added to the always-existent brew of drugs, gangs and illegal guns that are fueling the crime spree.
“We are seeing, and I hear this from chiefs and sheriffs all the time, as well as our own agents, an alarming uptick in the incidence of juveniles engaging in violence, often graduating from carjackings to even worse violence,” Mr.